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Campus Council passes fee increases The fee increases pertained to UTM’s compulsory non-academic incidental fees for UTMSU and UTMAGS ALICIA BOATTO NEWS EDITOR
Campus Council approved fee increases to University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union and Association of Graduate Students. This final approval indicates that the increases will officially be implemented starting Fall 2018 as the Campus Council is UTM’s highest form of governing body. The council also provided updates on new real estate investment as well as the university’s mental health policy. As previously reported by The Medium, UTMSU and UTMAGS were seeking an increase to their fee membership for the next academic year. According to the meeting’s agenda, “If approved, the total Fall/Winter UTMSU fee will be $151.66 per session ($129.15 part-time), charged to all UTM undergraduate students. The total Fall/Winter UTMSU fee for Mississauga Academy of Medicine students will be up to $224.31 per session.” The increase in the UTMSU Mississauga transit U-Pass fee con-
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Students will experience a raise in the U-Pass portion of the incidental fees. sists of $9.43 per session for part-time students for the summer session, and an increase of up to $8.12 per session for the part-time fall and winter sessions. Other raises include minor in-
creases of $0.22 in the society portion of the fee, and also minor increases for the first-aid response team on campus, and the academic societies portion of the fee.
As stated in the meeting’s agenda, “If approved, the total Fall/Winter UTMAGS fee will be $186.44 per session (full-time only) (Fall and Winter sessions), charged to all UTM-affiliat-
ed graduate students.” A representative from UTMAGS specified that the revenue from these increases will not be going to UTMAGS but will instead be going to MiWay for the U-Pass. The motion to approve the increase in Compulsory non-academic incidental fees for UTMSU and UTMAGS was carried. Both Munib Saijid, UTMSU’s executive director and Jose Wilson, UTMSU’s vice president external were in attendance. The council also approved fee increases to the UTM Health and Counselling Centre, as well as the Department of Physical Education, Athletics, and Recreation. According to the meeting’s agenda, “The sessional Health Services Fee for a UTM-registered or UTM-affiliated full-time student be increased to $46.06 per session ($9.21 for a parttime student), which represents a year-over-year increase of $1.34 per session ($0.27 for a part-time student) or 3.01% (resulting in a permanent increase of 3.01%).” Council continued on page 2
UTSU releases U-Commute survey results The survey received responses from 9,946 full-time undergraduate students and evaluates transit usage ALICIA BOATTO NEWS EDITOR
The University of Toronto Students’ Union released the results from their U-Commute transit survey in preparation for a potential GTA-wide UPass. The results showed that a large majority of students have to schedule their classes based on transportation needs, that a large majority of students plan to stay in the downtown core after graduation, and 95 per cent of students would vote “yes” to this pass in a referendum. According to the released results, “The survey received over 16,000 responses, with 9,946 responses from full-time undergraduate University of Toronto St. George students. Overall, the U-Commute survey saw a 23% response rate from full-time undergraduate University of Toronto St. George students.” The survey reviewed criteria of demographics, transit patterns, tran-
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U-Commute was designed in collaboration with Ryerson, OCAD, and George Brown. sit behaviors, and whether students would be willing to pay for such a pass. According to the survey, over 73
per cent of participants use public transit on its own or as a subset of methods to travel and chose other means of transportation, such as
walking or biking. 36 per cent of participants stated that they solely use public transportation in order to get around the city and the GTA.
Over 84 per cent of the students partaking in the survey stated that they rely on public transportation for more than just getting to class. Of the 9,946 respondents to the survey, 458 stated they did not use public transit, with 43.7 per cent of those stating it was due to high fees, while others said they had another preferred mode of transportation, and the remaining percentage stated they don’t use public transportation due to its unreliability and extended travel time. Due to the high pricing of the transit fairs, 3.6 per cent of students stated they evade transit fares on a daily basis, while 60 per cent said they have never evaded paying for transit. The survey, targeted at full-time undergraduate students, showed that 93 per cent of them would use this pass to expand their searches for job opportunities outside their normally frequented locations. Survey continued on page 2